ports/104563: gnome-screensaver-dialog fails to validate the correct password

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

Synopsis: gnome-screensaver-dialog fails to validate the correct password

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: marcus
State-Changed-When: Fri Nov 3 08:29:01 UTC 2006
State-Changed-Why: 
The problem is gnome-screensaver-dialog drops setuid privileges prior to
doing any kind of PAM authentication.  This means that UNIX passwd file
authentication via PAM will not work.  However, external PAM modules that
do not require root should work just fine.  If you are only going to be
using UNIX passwd authentication, don't build with PAM support (this is
the default).  If you will be using other PAM modules, then build with PAM.

Admittedly, this sucks, but it is not FreeBSD-specific, and if this problem
is really critical, it needs to be raised with the gnome-screensaver
authors.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=104563